Coyote Jump Leads Echoes Top 25 for May The Echoes Top 25 for May is an interesting mix of old and new. A lot of old favorites like Thomas Newman, Jef Stott, Clara Ponty, David Michael, Niyaz, and Carl Weingarten return. And world fusion seems to have made a return led by Coyote Jump’s CD…
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CD of the Month
A Summer Solstice CD of the Month: Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun.
Todd Boston’s Touched by the Sun is Echoes June CD of the Month Hear an interview with Todd Boston Tuesday, 10/9/2012 on Echoes. In June, the month when the sun has unchallenged dominion, guitarist Todd Boston has released the perfect album for summer days. Touched by the Sun is a thematic suite centered on images…
Reviews & Commentary
Prog Heaven Past & Future coming to Philly.
Philadelphia, where Echoes is based, will be experiencing a wave of progressive music past and present in the coming months. From the past, Tangerine Dream, UK and Van Der Graaf Generator. Reflecting the past, Broekhuis, Keller & Schonwalder. From the present, Sigur Ros, Dead Can Dance (well, kind between past & present), Radiohead and Iona. …
Program Highlights
Thierrry David’s Space Music Opus.
A Veteran French Synthesist Launches the Echoes April CD of the Month Hear an interview with Thierry David tonight July 18, on Echoes. It takes a lot of discipline for a skilled, classically trained keyboardist to put his technique on hold and instead, give in to the mood and atmosphere the music requires. On his…
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A Song for Echoes
A lot of people have recorded albums and songs called Echoes, and I sometimes thank them for naming their recording after the show. That actually hasn’t been their intent, except for Tim Farrell’s “Four Echoes” (from his album, Skydancer) an inside joke when I told him that any untitled song played live on the show…
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Echoes Video Valentines
I posted a couple of Valentine’s Videos on Facebook and it got me looking for other videos of music I’ll be playing tonight on Echoes of the Heart. You can create your own images tonight, but here’s some to get you in that Echoes of the Heart frame of mind. Air is a really good…
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Echoes Top 25 for January
Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes Heads Up the Echoes Top 25 CDs for January. Tino Izzo’s Morning Scapes was an Echoes Top 25 CD even before it became the Echoes CD of the Month (read review and hear trax). It leads our January list as Echoes returned to a more normal mode after December’s holiday programming. …
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Top 25 CDs for December
DARSHAN AMBIENT’S DREAM IN BLUE Leads December Top 25 CDs on Echoes. It was our December CD of the Month so it’s no surprise that Darshan Ambient’s Dream in Blue topped our Echoes Top 25 for the month. You can read a review and hear tracks here. The first four releases on the list all…
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Best Echoes CDs of 2011.
The Best of Echoes 2011 Listener Poll Here are the results from our Listener Poll for the Best of Echoes 2011. Saturday and Sunday Echoes listeners get to hear the Best of Echoes Echoes 12/17 & 18/2011. Links below will take you to reviews of these albums with full track samples or to Amazon. THE…
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25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011
THE ECHOES STAFF PICKS BEST OF 2011 Here are our staff picks for the 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2011. You’ll notice many of these (10) were Echoes CD of the Month Club selections from this past year. Links will take you to reviews and tracks from these albums. Here’s our list. You can also…